Global Human Rights Institutions

ISBN: 978-0-7456-3439-5

Paperback

248 pages

December 2007, Polity

Other Available Formats: Hardcover

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The first comprehensive introduction to global human rights institutions
With a preface by Conor Gearty, one of the world’s leading scholars of human rights
Analyses the function of global human rights institutions and discusses the challenges and paradoxes of ‘institutionalizing’ human rights
Examines UN institutions with a human rights mandate, the process of ‘mainstreaming’ human rights, international courts which adjudicate human rights, and non-governmental human rights organizations
Accessible and clearly written, this book is an ideal reference tool for all students and scholars of human rights and international politics